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eMOLT Update 2024-07-19
Weekly Recap
This week, the eMOLT fleet recorded 111 tows of sensorized fishing
gear totaling 1368 sensor hours underwater.
Thanks this week to Capt. Dave on the F/V Grace Sarah for agreeing to
be our guinea pig for the upgrade to v 4.0 of the deckbox software. We
rolled the upgrade out yesterday afternoon with some help from the team
at Lowell Instruments. We’ll monitor the Grace Sarah’s system over the
next few days to make sure it all works as intended and hopefully start
to roll the update out to the rest of the fleet over the next week.
One of the neat features of v 4.0 is that it will display bottom
temperature forecast gifs, similar to the gifs that are included in this
email, but the box updates every time a new forecast comes out. In order
to make those gifs more accessible to people who are colorblind, we are
trying out some new color schemes. Check them out below and let us know
if you have an opinion. All the plots show the same data, just with
different colors (named above the plot)
Inferno

Jet

Magma

Plasma

System Hardware Upgrade List
The following vessels remain on our list for hardware upgrades. If
you aren’t on the list and think you should be, please reach out.
- F/V Brooke C *
- F/V Excalibur
- F/V Kaitlyn Victoria
- F/V Kyler C
- F/V Linda Marie
- F/V Nathaniel Lee *
- F/V Noella C
- F/V Resolve
- F/V Sao Paulo
- F/V Sea Watcher I
- F/V Tom Slaughter
- F/V Virginia Marise
Profiles from Last Week
Here are some temperature profiles collected by eMOLT participants
last week. Interestingly, the coldest bottom temperatures in the region
covered by eMOLT vessels were observed off the South Shore of
Massachusetts (orange profile) and the backside of Cape Cod (purple
profile).

Courtesy of the Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries and the
Massachusetts Lobstermen’s Association
So far so good this season, with all sensors reporting oxygen values
in the “normal” range over the last week.

Bottom Temperature Forecasts
Doppio


Northeast Coastal Ocean Forecast System


Cooperative Research Opportunities
The Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission is soliciting for
five survey vessels for the pilot hook and line survey in Fall 2024 and
Spring 2025. The deadline for proposals is midnight EST on August 5,
2024. The Request for Proposals can be found here.
For questions about the RFP, please contact Jason Morson at the Northeast Fisheries
Science Center.
There are two openings for new vessels in the Study Fleet. The
full solicitation can be found here.
These new vessels will collect high resolution catch, effort, and
environmental data to address science and management needs for the
longfin squid, shortfin squid,mackerel, butterfish, scup, black sea
bass, summer flounder, whiting, and haddock fisheries. The deadline for
quotes is July 31st, and the vessel owner must have an account in the
System for Award Management (SAM.gov). Setting up a SAM account can be
an onerous process, so don’t leave this until the last minute. If you
have questions, please contact Katie
Burchard at the Northeast Fisheries Science Center.
Announcements
The Saltonstall
Kennedy Grant Competition is open until July 23, 2024 with a maximum
award amount of $500,000.
NOAA Fisheries is accepting public comment on the updated
“Ecosystem Based Fisheries Management Road Map” until July 31, 2024. The
Road Map can be downloaded here
and comments can be sent to nmfs.ebfm.roadmap@noaa.gov
The Woods Hole Science Stroll is taking place on August 10, 2024
in Woods Hole, MA from 10 am to 3 pm. Many of the labs in Woods Hole
will have hands on science exhibits and several research vessels will be
open for tours. The event is free and family friendly; you can learn
more here.
All the best,
-George and JiM
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